race condition in bind

2014-08-04 Thread yhu2
There seems to be a race condition in bind/named that leads to a segfault. This is the patch that solves the problem,and it is not fixed in upstream: --- lib/dns/view.c.orig 2014-07-22 14:55:09.300375792 +0300 +++ lib/dns/view.c 2014-07-22 14:55:15.025126595 +0300 @@ -516,6 +516,8 @@ U

RE: Metazones or Something Else?

2014-08-04 Thread John Anderson
>There's currently no supported way to perform in-band zone provisioning >via the DNS itself. I do have access to the metazone implementation >that Vixie wrote his paper about, and I can send it to you if you like, >but I'm not sure how useful you'll find it. There might also be some >intere

Re: Metazones or Something Else?

2014-08-04 Thread Doug Barton
On 08/04/2014 09:33 AM, John Anderson wrote: I've recently inherited a project that is going to require some method of automatically disseminating zone information to slave DNS servers running BIND. The traditional solution to this problem is rsync, although I realize that's not very sexy. :)

Re: Metazones or Something Else?

2014-08-04 Thread Mike Hoskins (michoski)
-Original Message- From: Evan Hunt Date: Monday, August 4, 2014 at 1:26 PM To: John Anderson Cc: "bind-users@lists.isc.org" Subject: Re: Metazones or Something Else? >> So to the best of your knowledge this functionality is still on drawing >> board, unless implemented out-of-band? (i.

Re: Metazones or Something Else?

2014-08-04 Thread Evan Hunt
> So to the best of your knowledge this functionality is still on drawing > board, unless implemented out-of-band? (i.e. a perl script to parse > metazone.zone, and create /etc/named.d/*.conf files) Or run "rndc addzone". There's currently no supported way to perform in-band zone provisioning vi

RE: Metazones or Something Else?

2014-08-04 Thread John Anderson
> Some such ideas have been discussed on various lists. See this thread for > example: > >http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/dnsext/current/msg13475.html > > Mukund Mukund, So to the best of your knowledge this functionality is still on drawing board, unless implemented out-of-b

RE: Metazones or Something Else?

2014-08-04 Thread John Anderson
Yes, the actual zone information, that would appear in named.conf something similar to: zone "name" in { optionA; optionB; optionN; }; -Original Message- From: Brian Cuttler [mailto:br...@wadsworth.org] Sent: Monday, August 04, 2014 9:49 AM To: John Anderson Subject: Re: Metazone

Re: Metazones or Something Else?

2014-08-04 Thread Mukund Sivaraman
Hi John On Mon, Aug 04, 2014 at 04:33:24PM +, John Anderson wrote: > Has this metazone idea gained any traction? Is there a distributable > implementation? If not, has another technology emerged which > essentially injects restart-persistent zone SOA record information > into BIND so that it

Metazones or Something Else?

2014-08-04 Thread John Anderson
Greetings Bind-Users List, I've recently inherited a project that is going to require some method of automatically disseminating zone information to slave DNS servers running BIND. While searching for an industry standard method of accomplishing this task, I came across this rather dated docum